Arthur Ashe Quotes
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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My closest friends are the ones who tell me that I'm being dumb or that I'm being wrong.
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Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.
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I loved September 12th. I loved the way - it's awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came together. All the bickering stopped. All the partisan, cheap partisan warfare stopped.
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I think there are some areas we can work together on to try to find some compromises.
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I was in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, on a scholarship. I was - still am - an artist. They were looking for an actor for 'Take a Giant Step,' and a producer liked my look and asked if I could act. I said, 'Yep!' Then I got into acting more or less just to make money for paints and canvases.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
